Sphere Grid guide.

[CountessLunalescaAureus]

Probably been asked already but can anyone make a video on how to Max all our team stats on the sphere grid, I am at the part in the game where I can basically traverse a whole grid in a couple goes, and can farm for days. Or if anyone has a save with the Sphere Grid completed with Max stats yet hasn't done the Dark Aeon, Nemesis, and Penance fights. Either would be appreciated! Thanks!

[Hinnyuu]

You really shouldn't need a guide for this, as it's incredibly simple. Kill the monsters in the arena that drop the sphere for the stat you want to max, until you have enough to max it. Repeat for every stat. The end.

Since you can literally put the spheres anywhere on the grid you want, and since you cannot delete skill nodes, there is no need for a particular strategy. You can fill it any which way you fancy.

Also, since getting more than 9,999hp is actually a detriment for the superboss fights, you have plenty of nodes to spare so you're not running out of room, either.

[CountessLunalescaAureus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hinnyuu:

You really shouldn't need a guide for this, as it's incredibly simple. Kill the monsters in the arena that drop the sphere for the stat you want to max, until you have enough to max it. Repeat for every stat. The end.

Since you can literally put the spheres anywhere on the grid you want, and since you cannot delete skill nodes, there is no need for a particular strategy. You can fill it any which way you fancy.

Also, since getting more than 9,999hp is actually a detriment for the superboss fights, you have plenty of nodes to spare so you're not running out of room, either.

So I can keep going as I am? Cause I kinda have been making up for my characters' weaknesses, adding extra spheres as I go. But some guides say I shouldn't be doing that. Plus Luck spheres being so rare on there and Luck it seems is needed.

[Hinnyuu]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ÆnigmaQueenLunaRose:

So I can keep going as I am? Cause I kinda have been making up for my characters' weaknesses, adding extra spheres as I go. But some guides say I shouldn't be doing that. Plus Luck spheres being so rare on there and Luck it seems is needed.

The worst that can happen is that you need to farm a few extra minutes. You literally cannot screw up the grid permanently, as you can reconfigure it as you please however many times you please.

Luck is also available infinitely, however the bosses that drop fortune/luck spheres are incredibly annoying to kill. There is no magic trick to get around that, and no other way to farm luck.

[CountessLunalescaAureus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hinnyuu:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ÆnigmaQueenLunaRose:

So I can keep going as I am? Cause I kinda have been making up for my characters' weaknesses, adding extra spheres as I go. But some guides say I shouldn't be doing that. Plus Luck spheres being so rare on there and Luck it seems is needed.

The worst that can happen is that you need to farm a few extra minutes. You literally cannot screw up the grid permanently, as you can reconfigure it as you please however many times you please.

Luck is also available infinitely, however the bosses that drop fortune/luck spheres are incredibly annoying to kill. There is no magic trick to get around that, and no other way to farm luck.

I am sitting on quite a few Luck Spheres now that I have followed a farming guide, how much luck do I really need? Some say 80 others say straight up 255, if 80 I am on a good pace, if 255 I need to start using it, my acc and eva are up in the 50's on all characters.

[Hinnyuu]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ÆnigmaQueenLunaRose:

I am sitting on quite a few Luck Spheres now that I have followed a farming guide, how much luck do I really need? Some say 80 others say straight up 255, if 80 I am on a good pace, if 255 I need to start using it, my acc and eva are up in the 50's on all characters.

It depends on how you define "need". Luck is incredibly powerful, which is why it's so hard to farm. It has various synergies with other stats (like e.g. Accuracy) and it also has a way of scaling with the enemy's Luck score.

In general, the most noticeable effect of Luck is that the higher the enemy's Evasion and Luck scores are, the more difficult it becomes to hit them. Luck can mitigate this. In practice, this pretty much only matters on two bosses: Dark Mindy and Penance. You will have trouble hitting them with attacks if your Luck score is too low, as both have very high Evasion values (to compare, most Dark Aeons have between 0 and 10 Evasion, while Penance's arms have 120 and Dark Mindy has 240). That doesn't mean it's entirely IMPOSSIBLE to hit them, and you can probably defeat them with fairly low Luck values if you just have at it long enough. In that sense, Luck is not per se REQUIRED to beat them, but does make the fights considerably easier if you have it.

That means that how much Luck you go for is a bit of a fluid value. While more is indeed better for the most part (though at very high values you may run into diminishing returns), getting 255 Luck is a chore beyond compare. I usually go for around 100, depending on how much of the farming I can stomach.

Some of the other values also have "soft" caps. Agility beyond 170 is practically useless. Evasion and Accuracy have synergies with Luck and probably don't need to be maxed, however as they are so incredibly easy to max out I usually just do that instead of worrying about mathing out the optimal values across three synergy stats. Strength, Defense, Magic Defense should all be maximum. Magic you can ignore, as you never use spells at endgame.

However, as I said earlier, since you have the space to spare and can't screw up, you don't actually NEED to go into the finer details of how stats work. At worst, you just waste a bit of time farming extra stats. It's not like having more than 170 Agility has any BAD effects, for example, it's just that 255 Agi is the same as 170 Agi for pretty much all intents and purposes. The only time where more is bad is on HP, but that has more to do with using Break HP Limit in your armor (don't) rather than the Sphere Grid.

[CountessLunalescaAureus]

I see. Thank you for clearing that up with me! You have put my mind at ease, as I was stresssing out about totally fudging up my Sphere Grid and putting my characters in a bind where they needed one stat over the other most. I appreciate all the time you put into explaining that for me!